Nintendo Wii as The Most Reliable Consoles in Gaming Segment

Malik Zulfi · Sep 8th, 2009, 01:06 AM

I am not much into game consoles but do you agree with this article.

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Previously we mentioned about Asus as the most reliable brand in PC market, if you are curious about which gaming consoles are having the most reliable rank, you may be interested on the analysis study conducted on high end gaming consoles. Just recently, SquareTrade, a warranty provider for Consumer Electronics products has published a report summarizing the failure rate of gaming consoles in most recent two years and pointed out that the most reliable gaming console is Nintendo’s Wii among others followed by Sony’s PS3 leaving Microsoft’s Xbox 360 behind.

The analysis report disclosed that Nintendo Wii fallout rate is only 2.7 percent, followed by Sony PS3 at 10 percent and Microsoft Xbox 360 at 23.7 percent for over the first two years. Despite the high failure rate, SquareTrade claimed that the fallout number for Xbox 360 was actually under-stated as there were some failure that being reported by consumers to Microsoft directly without captured by them. Out of the data reported, almost half of the failures were contributed by RROD (Red Ring of Death), with the rest pointed to disc read and display issues. At the same time, the study did emphasize that the console usage could also contribute to the higher failure rate especially in the first two years. Interestingly, the Xbox 360 is claimed to be utilized for average of 1191 minutes per month, followed by PS3 at 1053 minutes and Wii at 516 minutes per month only based on average users.

Nevertheless, Xbox failure rate is expected to decline especially with the Jasper chipset update that supposed to fix RROD issue. Also, there are other factors that make Xbox and PS3 more susceptible to failure as they are using a relatively higher end technology, either in design or manufacturing as well as other mechanical spinning parts such as hard disk drive or optical drive that tends to be less reliable over time.

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stoppit · Sep 8th, 2009, 06:38 AM

yes. nintendo hardware has always been very robust. they spend a lot more time and effort in designing their consoles.

Sony and MS are known for making a loss (sometimes significant) on each console they sell. Wii makes profit (I'm pretty sure this was true for the Gamecube, N64 etc too).

The surprising part of this article is that the 360 is the worst as Sony are notorious for poor hardware especially in the first model, the next few released are spent addressing those. The public do the Q&A.

Esix · Sep 8th, 2009, 07:00 AM

exactly, do u have any idea how much mocrosoft lost due to the "red ring of death" hardware failure thing?
loads of consoles were sent back. till now that error is continuing

PS3 when they launched ps3 suffered major losses, they sold the unit for less then the manufacturing cost

fat spartan · Sep 8th, 2009, 09:31 AM

Nintendo has generally made very reliable hardware. The XBox 360 RROD has been commonly known for a while now. Microsoft actually put aside a billion dollars to extend the warranty to 3 years for consoles affect by the problem.

Another reason that the XBox 360 and PS3 have a higher probability of failure over time is that the different components that they're cramming into the relatively small enclosure may not allow for adequate heat dissipation etc.